Articles by Robert Bell

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  Side Effects [Blu-Ray]

  Steven Soderbergh

  PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2013

  As noted in part by screenwriter Scott Z. Burns during the brief, highly promotional featurettes included with the Blu-Ray of Side Effects,...

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  1 Mile Above

  Du Jiayi

  PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2013

  Though given the laboured title of 1 Mile Above for presumably less spiritually-driven North American audiences, Du Jiayi's bit of inspirat...

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  Peaches Does Herself

  Peaches

  PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2013

  Ever the thwarter of convention, Peaches' experimental documentary Peaches Does Herself comes in a faux-concert film format, taking place o...

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  Before Midnight

  Richard Linklater

  PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2013

  It's been nine years since Before Sunset, when Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) ran into each other in France during his book t...

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  The East

  Zal Batmanglij

  PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2013

  Certain to be as overpraised in core urban North American locales as it will be ridiculed and mocked everywhere else, Zal Batmanglij's assu...

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  The Kings of Summer

  Jordan Vogt-Roberts

  PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2013

  Midway through surprisingly hilarious coming-of-age comedy The Kings of Summer, Biaggio (Moises Arias), the bizarrely analytical and abstra...

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  Jumpin' Jack Flash [Blu-Ray]

  Penny Marshall

  PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2013

  In the early to mid-'80s, back when James Cameron and Michael Crichton were making admonitory tales about the dangers of playing God with t...

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  The Star Chamber [Blu-Ray]

  Peter Hyams

  PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2013

  During the opening scenes of 1983 adult drama The Star Chamber, Superior Court Judge Steven Hardin (Michael Douglas) is forced to throw two...